The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-28

great excitement prevailed. This is vic
tory for the Boston 4 Maine road.
THE democratic faction fight in Boston
has broken out with fresh vigor, the lead
ing Irish democratic paper demanding that
Postmaster Corse, who is charged with re-
tanning republicans in Office under him, shall
resign.
ONE Vanderpoole, man of great literary
ability, was arrested last week on charges
of literary piracy preferred by New York
editors and publishers, whom he Is alleged
to have swindled in very ingenious
manner.
THE investigating committee of the New
Hampshire senate uphold Senator Sawyer
in his charge of attempted bribery at the
hands of Kirk Pierce, although they fail to
connect the Boston & Maine railroad with
the corrupt proposals.
FIRE broke out the ODD at Gravehurst,
Ont, and ragged all the next day. Forty
five places of business and thirty-eight
dwellings were destroyed and fully fifty
families are without food and shelter. The
loss is placed at 100000
THERE was a severe shock of earthquake
in Santiago de Cuba Friday, with vibrations
lasting half a minute; an hour later two
other shocks were felt. Two persons were
injured and some houses were damaged.
The shocks were also felt in Jamaica.
THE senate of Georgia has passed its sub
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three to thirteen. The bill merely with
draws the state money from educational in
situations where races are mixed and makes
graduates ineligible for teachers places.
THE Reading Coal and Iron Company has
given notice that broken and egg coal for
eastern shipment will be advanced fifteen
cents per ton each, to take effect at once. 1t
is also declared that there will be general
advance in the prices of anthracite coal
October 1st,
THE Mediterranean steamer " Alesia,'
which arrived at New York last week with
six hundred passengers, had eight deaths
from genuine Asiatic cholera and twenty
cases are still under treatment. The pas
sengers and vessel will be detained at quar-
antine several days.
& FURIOUS fire broke out at Dandy
Quebec, last week. Over one hundred
houses were consumed 1t is feared three
children were burned to death. The loss is
probably S250,O0O with little insurance. The
people are all poor and over four hundred
of them are homeless
THE Dublin Gazette publishes the procla-
nation suppressing the league and all its
branches in County Glare, and the baronies
of Leitram and Loughrea in Galway, Cork
aguiney in Kerry; Condons, Clangibbon,
Dunholow and Muskerry in Cork, and
Shelburne in Wexford.
HERR MosTs organ Der Freihect, contains
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| Chicago anarchists, requesting their friends
| and comrades to abandon all efforts to
secure justice for them. They declare it is
useless to expect justice from the courts.
Their execution, they allege, will hasten
the downfall of tyranny.
THE Massachusetts democrats nominated
ex-CoDgressman Lowering of Lynn for gov
ernor. The balance of the ticket Isl For
| acknowledgements Walter +. Cutting of
! Pittsfield; secretary OF state, John #. Muir
ply of Lowell; treasurer, Henry G.
Thatcher of Yarmouth; Encouragement,
John T. Corcoran of Clinton; auditor, Will
lam f. Cook of Springfield.
O'BRIEN, charged with sedition under the
coercion act, was taken Friday from Cork
| Jail to Mitchelstown to stand trial. AS he
| left the city under guard of detachment of
hussars and police he was loudly cheered.
| Upon their arrival at Michellstown O'Brien
was received with tremendous cheering by
a large crowd which had gathered to well
come him. The crowd manifested great ex-
element, but there were no indications of
disorder.
| THE recent cyclone of the Gulf of Mexico
caused floods the extreme southern
Texas coast, which involved a loss Of 81 ,000,-
900 at Brownsville and Santa Cruz. The
rainfall of Wednesday night reached the
enormous figure of ten inches. The wind
blew eighty miles an hour. No one was
killed, but many sustained injuries. The
village of Santa Cruz, opposite Brownsville,
was entirely submerged for several hours.
In Matamoras dozens of houses Of the better
class and $50 to 200 small houses were pros
trated, while 400 to 800 others were I'M
rooted.
The notorious Mrs. Cunningham, who
thirty years ago was tried for the murder of
DR.. Harvey Burdell, in New York city, has
| just died in the metropolis, at the age of
nearly eighty. The case in which she
figured was one of the most celebrated in
the annals of American crime. The victim
was a dentist, in whose house lived Mrs.
Cunningham, with her three daughters, and
kept boarders Among these were John j.
Eckels On the night of June 80. 1857, Bur-
| dell was assassinated, with knife for the
instrument of death. Mrs. Cunningham
and Eckels were separately tried for the
crime and acquitted. She tried to pass her
self off as Burdell's widow by a secret mar
riage, but her scheme failed, and she did
not secure any of his property. She after
ward went West, where she married man
named Williams, who finally deserted her.